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Why are drug names so long and complicated? A pharmacist explains the logic...
Having multiple prescriptions is difficult enough to keep track of, let alone ones with complicated names.Hill Street Studios/Stone via Getty ImagesAt some point in your life, you’ll likely find...
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Too hot to handle: Climate considerations for youth sport during the hottest...
Many young athletes spend hours in the hot sun every day.Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty ImagesAt least 50 high school football players in the U.S. have died from heat stroke after...
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Warsaw Ghetto's defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical...
The book includes haunting photos from inside the ghetto, along with its record of the medical effects of starvation.'Maladie de Famine," American Joint Distribution CommitteeExactly 80 years ago, a...
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Heat risk and young athletes -- rising temperatures lead to lawsuits and...
Many young athletes spend hours in the hot sun every day.Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty ImagesAt least 50 high school football players in the U.S. have died from heat stroke after...
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How not to solve the climate change problem
This direct air capture plant in Iceland was designed to capture 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.Climeworks 2021 via AP PhotosWhen politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions,...
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Meet _Qikiqtania_, a fossil fish with the good sense to stay in the water...
An artist's vision of *Qikiqtania* enjoying its fully aquatic, free-swimming lifestyle.Alex Boersma, CC BY-NDApproximately 365 million years ago, one group of fishes left the water to live on land....
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Megalodon sharks ruled the oceans millions of years ago – new analyses of...
Megalodon would have dwarfed today's great white sharks.Christina Spence MorganMillions of years ago, giant sharks three times larger than today’s great whites stalked the world’s ocean. They’re long...
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From in-crowds to power couples, network science uncovers the hidden...
Can you tell who in this picture wields soft power? A new technique for analyzing networks can.gremlin/E+ via Getty ImagesThe world is a networked place, literally and figuratively. The field of...
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Landsat at 50: How satellites revolutionized the way we see – and protect –...
A river meanders through the Amazon Basin, seen from Landsat.NASAFifty years ago, U.S. scientists launched a satellite that dramatically changed how we see the world.It captured images of Earth’s...
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Landsat turns 50: How satellites revolutionized the way we see – and protect...
The Yellow River in China winds past aquaculture and an oil and gas field on its way to a newly formed channel.NASAFifty years ago, U.S. scientists launched a satellite that dramatically changed how we...
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Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no one is...
Video cameras on city streets are only the most visible way your movements can be tracked.AP Photo/Mel EvansThe U.S. has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the world. Cameras are...
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Polio in New York – an infectious disease doctor explains this exceedingly...
Polio is endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2022.Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via APThe first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New York state health officials...
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Why do hammerhead sharks have hammer-shaped heads?
A great hammerhead shark's two eyes can be 3 feet apart on opposite sides of its skull.Ken Kiefer 2/Image Source via Getty ImagesCurious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a...
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Astronomers have found an especially sneaky black hole – discovery sheds...
VFTS 243 is a binary system of a large, hot blue star and a black hole orbiting each other, as seen in this animation.ESO/L.Calçada, CC BYThere is always something new and exciting happening in the...
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Cross-pollination among neuroscience, psychology and AI research yields a...
If you want to build a true artificial mind, start with a model of human cognition.DrAfter123/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty ImagesProgress in artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of AIs...
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Russians reportedly building a satellite-blinding laser – an expert explains...
A powerful enough laser beam could blind spy satellites.MuthuKutty/Wikimedia, CC BY-SARussia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according...
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Feeling connected enhances mental and physical health – here are 4...
Connecting can mean sharing a hearty laugh.Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesA woman and her fiancé joke and laugh together while playing video games after a long day.A college freshman...
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Russia’s withdrawal from the International Space Station could mean the early...
Russia controls six modules aboard the International Space Station.STS-122 Shuttle Crew, NASA via flickr, CC BY-NC-SARussia intends to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024,...
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Midwest forests lost 8,000 years of stored carbon in just 150 years – new...
Living trees, like these near Traverse City, Michigan, remove carbon dioxide from the air and lock it away.Owen Weber/www.owenweberlive.com via Getty Images“Plant a tree” seems to be the go-to answer...
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Nature is the world's original pharmacy – returning to medicine's roots could...
Around 75% of antibiotics, including penicillin and amphotericin B, are derived from natural products.Aphiwat Chuangchoem/EyeEm via Getty ImagesWhile humans evolved over a period of approximately 6...
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